On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 13:31 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:> > Sorry, this didn't help on my machine. I am running that latest kernel> > pre-patch (2.6.16-rc4) for testing right now and had to modify the> > offsets a little. If there's any output that would help, please let me> > know.>> hm, OK. I suppose we can hit it with the big hammer, but I'd be reluctant> to merge this patch because it has the potential to hide problems, such as> the as-yet-unfixed bio-uses-ZONE_DMA one.> > --- devel/mm/page_alloc.c~a 2006-02-26 13:26:56.000000000 -0800> +++ devel-akpm/mm/page_alloc.c 2006-02-26 13:28:58.000000000 -0800> @@ -1003,7 +1003,8 @@ rebalance:

I reversed the previous patch before applying this one. If they weresupposed to be used together, let me know.

>From the initial results it looks like the OOM Killer is not being usednow, Unfortunately I can't check with dmesg because right after login isinitiated (but before I get a chance to type anything) there is a"Kernel BUG" message. This is all that is is printed when a serialconsole is in use. If you need the rest of the information, let me knowand I'll see about typing it up.